Give your input on the Mayor's upcoming budget

The City must balance a nearly billion-dollar budget deficit for the next two fiscal years, requiring the Mayor to make tough decisions about how to use the City’s limited funding. To inform those decisions, the Mayor’s Office held a fall 2025 community budget workshop series with stakeholders to better understand community priorities. The priorities identified by community stakeholders centered around the following themes:

• Preserve core services (examples from community stakeholders: street cleaning, public transit, health services)
• Protect vulnerable communities from the impacts of federal policy changes on the social safety net (ex: general & preventative health services, food security, immigration)
• Increase affordability (ex: housing, employment opportunities, childcare)
• Make neighborhoods safe for everyone by engaging the community and addressing root causes

Community identified priorities have key ties with the Mayor’s Office priorities for the City and his commitment to delivering core government services efficiently. These include:

• Maintaining clean, safe, and welcoming streets and public spaces
• Ensuring positive long-term health outcomes for our vulnerable communities
• Making San Francisco more affordable and livable for families

The Mayor’s Office welcomes your input on the upcoming budget. Please follow the instructions to submit your or your organization’s priorities for this year’s budget cycle. For more information about the budget process, visit Budget | SF.gov.

For assistance with the submission process, please contact the Mayor’s Budget Office at budget@sfgov.org.

If you have questions regarding existing grants or contracts, please contact the City department that manages the grant directly.

If you or your organization have one, specific budget priority, please fill out the form linked below:

Public Budget Priority Form

Please tell us the name of your organization, your priority, a description of any related program, and a possible funding amount for the upcoming budget cycle. Completed submissions are due by Friday April 17, 2026.

If you or your organization have multiple budget priorities, please download the template linked below and submit it to budget@sfgov.org.

Public Budget Priority Template

Submissions that do not use this template will not be accepted. Completed templates must be submitted by Friday April 17, 2026.

For any questions about providing input on the Mayor’s upcoming budget proposal, please contact the Mayor’s Budget Office at budget@sfgov.org.